Incoming PCI council head ready to take on the hackers

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/2838369/data-protection/incoming-pci-council-head-ready-to-take-on-the-hackers.html

By Taylor Armerding
CSO
Oct 27, 2014

Stephen W. Orfei is the incoming general manager of the PCI Security 
Standards Council. He succeeds the council’s first general manager, Bob 
Russo, who will retire at the end of 2014.

Orfei has decades of experience in payment technology, including 13 years 
in telecom with MCI International as director of international business 
marketing, and14 years in payments with MasterCard Worldwide, the last 
three as senior vice president of emerging payments platform, advanced 
technology.

Earlier this month, Orfei applauded President Obama’s executive order 
requiring federal agencies to adopt EMV (chip and PIN) technology for 
government payment cards and for point-of-sale terminals at federal 
facilities.

In a statement, Orfei called EMV a “critical layer in any payment security 
strategy,” but added that, “it is not by itself a silver bullet for data 
protection,” since it does not stop malware or card-not-present attacks.

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